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This month’s ASAT feature comes to us from Alan Schnee, PhD, BCBA-D.To learn more about ASAT, please visit their website at www.asatonline.org. You can also sign up for ASAT’s free newsletter, Science in Autism Treatment, and like them on Facebook! I’ve been teaching children …

Interview with Chad Chenail, Producer and Staff Writer, America’s Test Kitchen Kids Kids are as deeply engaged as their parents in listening to podcasts, so it’s important that the content created for them is inclusive and diverse, so every listener can find themselves in the stories. Chad…

When Maxwell Elliott’s latest research paper began making the rounds on Twitter last June, he wasn’t sure how he felt. Elliott, a graduate student in clinical psychology in Ahmad Hariri’s lab at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, studies functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and how i…

Tonya White likes to move. She has switched academic disciplines several times, moving across an ocean in the wake of one career shift. After earning her M.S. in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois, she changed gears and went into medicine. Fifteen years later, she was a child psych…

By Jordan Wilson-Dalzell There are many ways you can show up and support autistic people. First, remember to listen to us. We are the experts on autism and our own lived experiences. Support autistic folks in your lives by listening to them first, and learn from autistic voices in general. A place…

Mutations in TSC2, a gene linked to autism and a related condition called tuberous sclerosis complex, cause developing neurons to ignore chemical cues that help them connect with each other, a new study suggests. The results may explain the altered wiring patterns seen in the brains of people with s…

MagnusCards gives users more confidence and helps them spot signs of fraudulent activity. The post New Banking App Teaches People with Autism How to Make Transactions Securely appeared first on The Autism Site News. Source: The Autism Site

Thousands of people with autism may be going undiagnosed due to this error. The post Graduate Students Discover Serious Error in Autism Screening Guidelines appeared first on The Autism Site News. Source: The Autism Site

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Community Newsletter! I’m your host, Chelsey B. Coombs, Spectrum’s engagement editor. As a housekeeping note, if you want to continue receiving this newsletter after today, please click here to receive an email from Mailchimp and update your preferences. We’re start…

Tory Ridgeway’s dreams were dashed when the Navy rescinded his scholarship because of his autism diagnosis. Tory Ridgeway’s dream for the last decade is to serve his country through participating in the military as an aero-space engineer. Tory is an Eagle Scout who graduated from high s…

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Most mornings, Huda Zoghbi, 67, climbs a glass-encased, curling staircase to reach her lab on the top and 13th floor of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute in Houston, Texas. The twisting glass tower, which she designed with a team of architects, echoes the double helix of DNA — a…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given the okay to an app designed to help clinicians diagnose autism in children, labeling it safe for use. But it’s still unclear whether the technology is effective, researchers say, raising concerns that it could actually disrupt the standard diagno…